Scotland doesn't count as "the North", because that term refers to the North of England. Scotland is a separate nation, but most of the people in it are painfully Southern. 💅

What really freaks my nut out about Jo Cox is that it is 100% nailed on that had she lived, she would now be gleefully enacting racist policies in order to impress her murderer.

Sorry, but I've seen enough hokey horror films to know when someone has been possessed by some unspeakable evil.

Remember the stink when Farage had an account closed by Coutts? The reams of press and commentary, even by sensibles, was a thing. This meanwhile will merit very little.

Yorkshiremen right now...

Even if you switched off *everything* in your house, the standing charge for electricity has risen from ~20p per day in 2020 to 57.19p a day today. Mainly 'cause we're all paying for failed energy companies.

WHERE'S MY NUMBERS YOU COWARDS

Welp guess I'm finding a new VPN korben.info/en/mullvad-c...

Is it just me or is it getting hot in here? [adjusts collar]

What a horrendous day to be literate.

Rosie's return chats:

Shabana Mahmood looks like the type of Russel T Davies-era Dr Who villain that would make me scoff thinking "God this is all so ham-fisted and not-at-all subtle".

Can never decide whether the media's insistence that the tepid fucks of Labour are radical class warriors is about their staggering lack of political knowledge, or a deliberate strategy to delegitimise genuinely left-wing ideas in the eyes of the British public.

Human rights are stored in the calves.

She's been like this for decades. My perennial favourite "article" of hers:

Countries aren't real though. They're entirely fictitious.

Wonder if all of this twisty bollocks from the Government might suddenly come crashing down in the case of a "heterosexual lesbian" couple applying to get married in the Church of England? There's an explicit carve out in law to forbid them marrying the gays, but this all muddies the waters, surely?

Biblical, window-rattling thunder here in t'Toon.

This would be great, save for the fact that BBC news is one of the biggest pushers of laundered right wing disinformation out there.

[extremely Tom Waits voice] What are they building in there???

It's me. I'm a British Grandma.

Curious how all these antisemitism campaigners despise the left way more than actual, honest to God antisemites.

reskeet my alt to find all my evil friends please!

Thinking sadly of all the trees that got cut down as a cost cutting measure during that first wave of austerity. Could really have done with that all still being there now, huh?

I say the only hope for games developers is to "git gud".

He means Comms spokespeople, and that's only 'cause the BBC is in Salford.

[coughs and laughs nervously]

My body right now.

Dying in a mobile furnace aka "an Arriva bus in a heatwave".

Not a good omen.

Gonna say this once, so listen up. Winterfell is clearly meant to be York. The whole Stark/Lannister feud is a riff on the War of the Roses. Which makes Andy Burnham a filthy, duplicitous, gold-obsessed (and possibly incestuous) Lannister/Lancastrian. 😤😤😤

FAO: #FBPE

Lot of articles reminding Burnham of the "acceptable" limits of his power, is it?

Today, I shall mostly be working in naught but my pants.

BTW, important news...

FAO: the Labour Party

Was gonna do a spot of exercise this morning, but fuck that, absolutely not.

Delighted to discover the fit gym teacher from Aenigma (1987) is none other than sexy salt n' pepper Captain Birdseye.

If Burnham has done some sort of deal to stop Streeting from running (e.g. let him be chancellor), then he's an absolute fucking idiot and will fail harder and faster than I'm currently anticipating.

Sure is interesting how an independent American publication is producing A+ laser-focused analysis on Starmer’s collapse while the UK media establishment pretends not to understand what everybody already knows: radical centralism does not and cannot work www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/

Watching the besuited business folk hopping on board the Flying Scotsman in Newcastle and thinking "It's gonna be nearly 40° in London today, what the fuck are you doing?"

Oh my word, she's clearly on the edge. She'd absolutely flip if you held up a pro-trans sign at one of her gigs. It would be very, very funny - and very, very achievable - especially now she has to resort to padding out her gigs via seat-filling services.

The fate of the left is to be derided for being correct a hundred years too early.

Yr a rabid transphobe Gareth, we'd already gathered you were right wing and reactionary from that.

Nice.